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...What we had hoped the report would do at least was provide wide discussion," a disappointed Dahl says today about the report's performance. "It didn't even do that." What went wrong? Dahl's version portrays a faculty basically unreceptive to change and a student body that cared little either as the primary reasons for the dust that has since gathered on the report...
Some of the report's suggestions are just now being adopted, mostly in diluted forms and through other committees. But its major recommendations, particularly the bold "mentor plan," an elaborate residential college-run program that marched students with faculty tutors, have been forgotten. The impetus for the mentor program, Dahl says, was the need to change ineffective advising and counseling that students received. But Dahl says the plan, which would have provided 15 mentors per college ruffled the feathers of the faculty, who viewed it as "a threat to departmental programs" and as "raising the danger of declining standards...
...mentor recommendations - with "massive indifference," Hoskins remembers. If anything, only a small appendix note on a possible change in the lengths of the school term to save money caused any stir. But that stir was strong enough to distract the faculty from the other 117 pages of the Dahl Report. The appendix suggested that the school should remain open all year to try to increase tuition revenue without crowding classes. "The debate on the report waged on that appendix," William Kessen, Yale professor of psychology and committee member, recalls. Ironically, after all "that vigorous and negative response, we ended...
...major recommendations of the report. Worse, with the debate over the report's appendix came the understanding that not only could things not change for the better but that the status quo would have to be cut back and the number of faculty reduced. "The fact that Dahl didn't have the price tag for his recommendation injured us," Hoskins says. "They told us originally that we shouldn't be bounded by finances, but it was finances that inevitably took all the attention away from the report's major recommendations...
...over again," Dahl says now, "I would include some students." He says without student views the report lacked important. Also, Dahl says he was disturbed by the dearth of alumni comment, which could only be remedied by an improvement in Yale's communications with its alumni...